Set on Grand Manan, “A Woven World” is part memoir, part cultural history.
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Art review: Meg Brown Payson looks through the surface of Maine waters
Her series ‘Asleep On the Dock’ is on display in the Press Hotel in Portland.
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A vigorous examination of ‘Mr. NAACP,’ who passed as white
A. J. Baime recounts the extraordinary life of the NAACP’s Walter White who wrote late in life: “I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me.”
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Dance review: Maine State Ballet’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ enchanting for all ages
Delayed for two years by the pandemic, the production continues through April 10.
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‘The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.’ turns Sylvia Plath’s life into captivating fiction
Plath continues to fascinate us, even in fictional form.
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Art review: Nyeema Morgan grants permission to rethink iconic works
Her exhibition at Grant Wahlquist Gallery reframes well-known works of art with frosted Plexiglas and phrases that impart new meaning.
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Book review: One writer, two very different books
In Catherynne Valente’s new novels, one protagonist makes the best of it in Garbagetown, the other has the best of it in Arcadia Gardens – or maybe not?
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Book review: An absorbing new anthology brings together Maine writers familiar and not
In short stories that go far beyond clichés, ‘North by Northeast 2’ gives a rich picture of Maine.
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Amy Bloom documents her heart-wrenching journey to help her husband end his life
In a memoir, Bloom writes of her husband’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and all that followed.
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Art review: Colby pulls works from its collection to create ‘Atmosphere’
The exhibit is centered around a video by Lorna Simpson called ‘Cloudscape.’